I got my bags packed on a roll.

Welcome to the first live episode of the amateur traveler.

Obviously you're listening to this pre-recorded, but this is a different episode of the amateur traveler than usual ones.

It was recorded live on Talk Shoot, which is an internet site that you can use to do call-in shows and so this is a show where I get to

interact with some of the members of the amateur traveler listening community.

So that'll obviously make this show very very different from the typical episode of

the amateur traveler.

I hope you like it anyway.

If this is your first episode, this is not a good episode by which to judge whether you'll

like the show or not.

So you may want to go back an episode and see whether you like the episode we did last week on Tahiti.

This episode is also coming to you unedited.

So usually I spend about six hours editing down the show and this one is going to be a bit longer

and then also is going to be a little less polished than usual.

But with no further to do and no further apologies, here's the first

live dial-in episode of the amateur traveler. recorded live.

Welcome to the first possibly the last I don't know a live call-in version of the amateur

traveler show we've got a few people in the room right now and we'll see whether

this ever goes up on the feed for the rest of you who didn't show up. I've got a couple other

podcasters who have showed up today who I want to welcome. Victor Kial, who is from the typical

Mac user as well as the immigration tales podcast. Victor hello.

Hey Chris, how are you? And then Apollo Tusolini, who is normally in Italy but

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